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Is IP given its due importance in your company? If not, say Andrew Watson and Jordan Hatcher, maybe it's time to stop being a blue personality, and become red or yellow

Fasten your seatbelts. John M Carson, Alan Kessler and Hugh Dunlop explain how the PPH works in practice, and ask which applicants will most benefit from it

Whether the unauthorised use of a trade mark as a keyword or adword by internet search engines such as Google to cause the appearance of an advertisement for others' goods or services, either directly or by way of a link to a home page, is use of a trade mark that could be forbidden by trade mark law is one of the hottest topics of this year.

Online drugs sales and the economic downturn are feeding a cybersquatting boom, according to recent reports. James Nurton and Eileen McDermott report

Greg Gurr and Simon Potter of Spruson & Ferguson look at recent court decisions on patent ownership, entitlement, contributory infringement and innovative step

Philip Noonan, director-general of IP Australia, talks to Peter Ollier about planned reforms to the country's IP system, patent harmonisation and how the Office is coping with the credit crunch

There is a need for users of social network websites to realise the importance of protecting their uploaded contents. The invasion of their privacy can stem from the social network providers attempting to withdraw users' rights to utilize their uploaded contents or from unauthorised persons exploiting the contents. In the United Arab Emirates, there are laws to protect the right to privacy accorded to individuals.

In the first ever case of its kind, on February11 the Patents Court ordered the payment of £1.5 million ($2.1 million) in "employee compensation" to two former employees of GE Healthcare who were inventors of chemical complexes which form the basis of GE Healthcare's blockbuster heart imaging product Myoview. The claim was made under little-used provisions of the Patents Act 1977 which entitle employees named as inventors on patents to seek compensation if the patent has been of "outstanding benefit" to the employer. In this case the Court found that this hurdle had been overcome, assessed the monetary value of the patents to GE Healthcare at £50 million and awarded the inventors a 3% share of that benefit.

The Taiwan Intellectual Property Office has released a draft of the revised Patent Law in which significant amendments have been introduced. These include introducing the doctrine of international exhaustion of patent rights with clear stipulations set out on how the doctrine applies to biological material and plant related patents. Also, the right conferred by an invention patent no longer applies when the practice of the invention by others is for research and experimental purposes necessitated by applying for regulatory approval of a drug.

Is the hoarding of a competitor's product containers an act of unfair competition under the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines? This is the issue addressed in the case of Coca Cola Bottlers Phils Inc vs Quintin Gomez, et al in case no GR 154491 involving two rival multinational soft drink giants; petitioner Coca-Cola Bottlers, Phils, Inc accused Pepsi Cola Products Phils, represented by the respondents, of hoarding empty Coke bottles in bad faith to discredit its business and to sabotage its operation in the Bicol region.